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Czechoslovak Nationality Room

ca. 1939

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Czechoslovak Nationality Room
  • Title
  • Czechoslovak Nationality Room
  • Date
  • ca. 1939
  • Identifier
  • CZCR55.UA
  • Description
  • Close view of a panel depicting Slovak literary language creator Ludovit Stur and Matica Slovenska president Bishop Stefan Moyzes. Eight ceiling panels above the lectern represent Czech and Slovak scholars and leaders. The Czechoslovak room emphasizes education, leadership and a love of nature. It was designed by Dr. Bohumil Slama. In the back of the room is the proclamation that King Charles the IV issued when he created Prague's Charles University in 1348. The murals near the windows depict animals and plants interacting, which were painted by artists Karel and Marie Svolinski from Prague. The Czechoslovak room was dedicated March 7, 1939. This room, along with twenty five other Nationality Rooms all with different architectural styles, was conceived in the 1920s by sociologist Ruth Crawford Mitchell as a means of linking the university with the immigrant culture of the steel working families.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
    photographic prints
    gelatin silver prints
  • Subject
  • Decoration and ornament
    Panel painting
    Cathedral of Learning (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Czechoslovak Room
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs, 1884-present
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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